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I can't tell you how bored I am with the current, endless, ridiculous, if occasionally hilarious, GOP nomination process. Oops, I just did.

So with that, I'll note here that I've been predicting for months --- long before anybody seemed to be mentioning it (as I now hear it more and more each day), and when I was even ridiculed for the suggestion --- that there was a better than 50% chance we'd see a brokered GOP convention in Tampa this August. I have long been further suggesting that there was also a better than 50% chance that the ultimate nominee would be someone other than the 10 or so lead candidates running at the time of my original prediction.

I see no reason to modify any of those fairly conservative and, I think, pretty reasonable, predictions now. But let's see what you guys think. We can look back at your thoughts once the convention rolls around...

WHAT WILL OCCUR AT THE 2012 GOP CONVENTION?

One of the four currently leading candidates in the race will win the nomination. No brokered convention.

There will be a brokered convention that will result in one of the four leading candidates currently in the race winning the nomination.

There will be a brokered convention that will result in someone other than the four leading candidates currently in the race winning the nomination.

You can't make up shit crazier than what we've seen so far outta this GOP nominating process. Given the unpopularity(aside from the recurring brief rollercoaster enthusiasm for the litany of frontrunners) of each and every one of their own candidates I'd think anything is possible at their convention.

Looks to me like Jeb and Diebold et al. will ensure a brokered convention and a skin-o-your-teeth, last-minute, come-from-ridiculously-far-behind "victory" for the forces of evil. Come on over! Europe is wonderful! (so far, at least)

Sorry Brad. This election cycle I don't even have enough enthusiasm or knowledge about the current state of the nomination process to intelligently participate in your poll. In any realistic scenario the GOP (Wall St, MIC) power structure wins. Any of their figurehead candidates is a win for them. Obama is a win for them. What does it matter?

Chris Christie would be a worse laughing stock than anyone running now. You can only imagine the cartoons --- Christie as an elephant, a beached whale, a bald eagle that can't fly, the Sta-Puf Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters --- the possibilities are endless. In a pre-TV era he might have made it, but nobody wants another Taft.